1591 – Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49
1604 – Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29
1660 – Jacob Cats [Father Cats], Dutch grand pensionary and poet (Houwelyck), dies at 82
1695 – Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
1779 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, dies at 67
1879 – Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49
1956 – Hans Carossa, German writer, dies at 77
1963 – Mervyn A. Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63
1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975), dies at 84
1994 – Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72